spamassassin doing rbl's

[Jared]

Darn, I did find a mention of that in the archive but A) assumed that
my deb package would install it as a dependency and B) wasn't sure
which deb package it was in.

For those using debian, instead of using CPAN, Net::DNS can be
installed as a deb using the package: libnet-dns-perl

I've added this question/answer to the mailscanner FAQ under
SpamAssassin.  Hopefully it's accurate.

Thanks for the help.

-jared


On Monday, Oct 13, 2003, at 15:26 US/Eastern, Julian Field wrote:

> You need to install the Net::DNS perl module. Use CPAN to install it
> as it
> has buckets full of dependencies which you will need too.
>
> At 20:12 13/10/2003, you wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I've tried to find an answer in the archives and on the web, but had
>> no
>> luck.
>>
>> I'm running Mailscanner which then calls SpamAssassin in a email
>> gateway environment.  The problem is that I can't seem to get
>> Spamassassin to use blacklists.  And it's not clear to me which of the
>> numerous values in the confs preventing this, or if it's a completely
>> separate issue all together.
>>
>> My set up is as follows:
>>
>> Debian Stable (Woody)
>> Exim 3.35
>> Mailscanner 4.22 (packaged for debian by inutility.net)
>> Spamassassin 2.55 (packaged for debian by inutility.net)
>>
>> -------------------------------
>> Various configuration setting
>>
>> In mailscanner.conf I have:
>>
>> Spam Checks = yes
>> Spam List =
>> Spam Domain List =
>> Use SpamAssassin = yes
>>
>> In mailscanner/spam.assassin.prefs.conf I have:
>>
>> skip_rbl_checks  0
>> score RCVD_IN_SBL   2
>>
>> The SpamAssassin conf 50_scores.cf has:
>>
>> score RCVD_IN_SBL 1.0 1.013 1.0 1.101
>>
>> My /etc/spamassassin/local.cf contains:
>>
>> score RCVD_IN_SBL  2
>>
>> The spamassassin config 20_head_tests.cf has:
>>
>> # SBL is the Spamhaus Block List: http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/ .
>> header RCVD_IN_SBL              rbleval:check_rbl('relay',
>> 'sbl.spamhaus.org.')
>> describe RCVD_IN_SBL            Received via SBLed relay, see
>> http://www.spamhaus.org/sbl/
>> tflags RCVD_IN_SBL              net
>>
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> With all that, I assumed I have my bases covered, I've made sure all
>> the various RCVD_IN_SBL scores are non-zero.
>>
>> It's been running for a few days and no messages were matching the
>> rule, so I fired up tcpdump and there are no dns requests for the
>> spamhaus blacklist.
>>
>> Just to make sure it worked, I set "Spam List = spamhaus.org" in
>> mailscanner.conf and then Mailscanner did do the blacklist check and
>> that worked, but I want the score to be added to the Spamasssassin
>> check.
>>
>> What am I missing?
>>
>> thanks for any help,
>> -jared
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